This work addresses the delicate problem of lossy compression of medical images. More specifically, a selective allocation of coding resources is introduced based on the concept of 'diagnostic interest' and an interactive methodology based on a new measure of 'diagnostic quality'. The selective allocation of resources is made possible by a selection a priori of regions of specific interest for diagnostic purpose. The idea is to change the precision of representation in a transformed domain of region of particular interest, through a weighting procedure by an on- line user-defined quantization matrix. The overall compression method is multi-resolution, provides for an embedded generation of the bit-stream and guarantees for a good rate distortion trade-off, at various bit-rates, with spatially varying reconstruction quality. This work also analyzes the delicate issue of a professional usage of lossy compression in a PACS environment. The proposed compression methodology gives interesting insights in favor of using lossy compression in a controlled fashion by the expert radiologist. Most of the ideas presented in this work have been confirmed by extensive experimental simulations involving medical expertise.

Progressive ROI coding and diagnostic quality for medical image compression

SIGNORONI, Alberto
Methodology
;
LEONARDI, Riccardo
Supervision
1998-01-01

Abstract

This work addresses the delicate problem of lossy compression of medical images. More specifically, a selective allocation of coding resources is introduced based on the concept of 'diagnostic interest' and an interactive methodology based on a new measure of 'diagnostic quality'. The selective allocation of resources is made possible by a selection a priori of regions of specific interest for diagnostic purpose. The idea is to change the precision of representation in a transformed domain of region of particular interest, through a weighting procedure by an on- line user-defined quantization matrix. The overall compression method is multi-resolution, provides for an embedded generation of the bit-stream and guarantees for a good rate distortion trade-off, at various bit-rates, with spatially varying reconstruction quality. This work also analyzes the delicate issue of a professional usage of lossy compression in a PACS environment. The proposed compression methodology gives interesting insights in favor of using lossy compression in a controlled fashion by the expert radiologist. Most of the ideas presented in this work have been confirmed by extensive experimental simulations involving medical expertise.
1998
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